• JamesBean
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      76 hours ago

      Vanguard recently started offering a savings account that currently has a 4.15% APY (their ‘cash plus’ account).

      If OP wants to park the money in a savings account for easier access than a mutual fund, that’s both a more reliable institution and a better rate.

    • @MrEff
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      2 hours ago

      $10,000 at 4% gives you $400 interest in one year.

      Just about any decent dividend stock will outperform that. Look at PET for example. It is sitting at $3.65/share right now and offers a quarterly dividend of $0.30. That puts you at $1.20/share per year. 10k = 2739 shares = $3,286.80 dividend payout in one year.

      Banks are the worst place to put investments. Money in bank accounts are only supposed to be there if you need it liquid, like an emergency fund or your checking account.

      *PETS

      PETMED EXPRESS INC COM

      For all the nay sayers downvoting me as if it is impossible to find dividend stocks that outperform their precious SPY or high yield savings rates, here is a great list I found with shit loads. I count 60 different stocks that offer 10% yields or more. 100 in total all offering over 8% -double what some bullshit ‘high yield’ savings offers.

      https://www.tradingview.com/markets/stocks-usa/market-movers-high-dividend/

        • @MrEff
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          PETS, sorry, don’t know why my phone cut off the ‘S’.

          PETMED EXPRESS INC COM

        • @MrEff
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          Sure. It is still a lower rate than going into dividend stocks.